I read Cees de Groot’s
diary in which he mentions that the Orbiten Free Software
Survey credits him for a mere 39 K of code. Since I am
curious, I decided to check what the survey says about me
and I saw that it credits me (author 3745)
for the incredible total of 28 bytes of code. Wow!
I’m
impressed…

For some reason,
it did not find me among the
contributors to
the
GIMP or some other packages to which I contributed. But
after a bit more
careful investigation, I found that the database had
registered me several times, so I have the other profiles 7841
(credited for 21 K) and 9709
(credited for 55 K). Still, that’s not much… The
interesting thing is that I am credited for some
projects in which I did not even know that my code was
used. But on the other hand, I could not find my name in
any of the projects to which I contributed directly (except
for rplay). Funny… Anyway, I’m curious to see the
results of their next study, which should be available
soon.

While I am thinking about contributions to free
software
projects, I realized that I wrote some patches to the GIMP
last
month and I forgot to submit them. They have been sitting
on my hard disk since then. Hmmm… Maybe I need more
sleep?